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I've finished 11 more successful Writes and Verifies. So, I don't foresee these failing to complete burns successfully. However, I still need to wait 1 week and do manual Verifies on these discs. My first bad batch of branded blue and white Verbatim BD-R would successfully complete Writes and Verifies but be partially unreadable after only a few days. A week has been a good indicator with the replacement batch I got which appeared to be fine before the 3rd batch wouldn't even complete Writes.

I just finished completing 17 Writes and Verifies. I order all of my optical discs from Amazon.com. I get DataLife Plus/AZO for everything from Verbatim. Except the BD-R which used to be fine but aren't anymore. Now, it seem the DataLife Plus inkjet option is the only way to go. I get some 8x DVD+RW from Memorex because they're the only ones you can find on Amazon and eBay anymore. And I get some Memorex Ultra Speed CD-RW off of eBay because that's the only place you can find them. Memorex didn't farm those out to CMC like they usually do and instead used Mitsubishi, which makes Verbatim's high quality media.

I'm based in the United States, so I can't say for absolutely 99.99% certainty (Nothing is 100% certain. A basic law of probability and statistics. ) but I would say those are the same as the ones I've bought from Amazon.com over the years: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00008L3HV?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001LS35W?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1

AZO discs are some of the best out there. AZO are Verbatim's DataLife Plus series. Unlike their Life Series, which are the CMC Magnetics crap, the DataLife Plus series are sometimes labeled as AZO, which are the better brands of discs out there. So, yeah, basically look for DataLife Plus and/or AZO when shopping Verbatim brand discs.

Hm, yeah, I don't think I've ever seen that kind of interface before.

If I were to analyze this situation, I'd first ask how old the drive is and how much use has it gotten. Depending on the answers to those, it could be a drive issue. To answer if it were a media issue, it would depend on the manufacturer of the recordable discs in question. You say you were using Verbatim CD-R, but if they were the CMC Magnetics junk, I can see them having read back issues 15 years later. And if the DVD-R were also CMC's, that could explain it. However, pressed discs (The ROM kind.) being readable and the recordable not being readable could be indicative of a failing laser issue. Pressed discs have a lower read failure rate than recordable discs using organic dyes. And, given how it seems "universal" across the board that pressed discs can be read but not recordable discs, I would lean towards the issue being the drive needing replacing. You could invest $25 in a USB DVD drive and see if it can read those recordable discs. If it can, you know the issue is your old drive had died/is dying.

Ah, then this is not ImgBurn's creating a .CUE file. ImgBurn creates Audio CD's with its .CUE creation function. The file names sound like they're a downloaded PS1 game. The .CUE file is associated with ImgBurn because when it's installed, it automatically Associates itself with .CUE files so when you click on the .CUE file, ImgBurn will automatically open, open it for burning, and let the user proceed from there. ImgBurn is not doing this BIN CUE file creation itself unless you're using Build mode and adding folders from a PS 1 game to it. Which you shouldn't do as the resulting disc most likely won't play.

That's odd. It should theoretically be impossible for .CUE creation to make image files. .CUE files are burned on the fly to CD writable discs. Near as I ever saw, it wasn't even possible to create image files when creating a .CUE in ImgBurn. You are using the Create .CUE File function to make an Audio CD, right? When you say "with the ImgBurn logo," do you mean the image files have the ImgBurn icon associated with them in File Explorer?

I've burned 12 of these DataLife Plus inkjet BD-R thus far. All 12 completed Write and Verify. So, they're thus far ahead of the last batch of branded blue and white Verbatim BD-R I used.

Okay, I just got my first order of Verbatim DataLife Plus inkjet BD-R since Verbatim's branded blue and white BD-R went to trash. I just finished burning a nearly full disc. Only 563 MB were free. It completed Write and Verify successfully. Now, this isn't a guarantee yet. I had one of the now bad Verbatim BD-R from my last stack of blue and white branded discs that completed Write and Verify, but the next 3 failed to either complete Write or completed Write but failed Verify. So, I need to do some more burns, which is convenient, as I need to do a near 20 disc BD-R backup right now. And I still need a week to make sure the discs are still readable. My first stack of bad branded blue and white Verbatim BD-R completed Write and Verify but were partially unreadable after less than a week. So, I need to wait a week and perform a manual Verify on all of those 20 BD-R's I mentioned that need burning in the previous paragraph.

If you've tried both Verbatim and another brand of DVD-R, then the issue is either one with your burner or some obscure Windows error. First off, try changing the I/O Interface in ImgBurn. Tools --> Settings --> I/O --> Page 1 --> Interface. Try changing to a different interface. It shouldn't be necessary, but I would recommend closing and reopening ImgBurn between changing I/O Interfaces. See if any of those different Interfaces help. Barring that not working, I'd try getting a new DVD burner, preferably a different make, model, and manufacturer.

I've never bought any BD-R DL media so I couldn't say anything about any other manufacturer's quality. You might as well try using ISO's and attempt slower speed burns. You've got no other BD-R DL discs to try and you know the ones you've currently got probably will result is problems, too, which means they won't be useful normally. So, you might as well experiment as opposed to just tossing them.

VenToy though may require some configuration a lesser technically savvy user may not be able to accomplish. I know I had to disable Safe Boot (I think.) in the BIOS in order to boot a VenToy USB flash drive I tested out.

Yeah, those have similar blue and white branded labels to the Verbatim BD-R SL that were fantastic for a decade and then became shit over the last half year.

Invalid Field in CDB is a write error. So, it's either the hardware or the media or a combination of both. It wouldn't have anything to do with the source material being put onto the disc/into the image. Writing to an image file first is generally preferable in common usage. A lower speed might help, but most likely wouldn't. I have that model ASUS BD burner, but I've never burned a BD-R DL in it before. Or any BD media beyond SL except BD-RE DL in LG WH16NS40 and NS60. Can you provide a link to where you got these BD-R DL you're using? I'm curious to see what they look like/the packaging. If they are the branded blue and white Verbatim discs, as I said, their BD-R SL went to crap.

Wouldn't be the first incorrectly authored image, audio, or video file I've seen downloaded by people before. In fact, it seems like 50% of them are.

It sounds like you downloaded this ISO instead of creating it yourself, because whoever made the ISO didn't make it correctly. Probably the only thing you can do is use something to mount or extract the contents from the ISO to a temporary location and use Build mode in ImgBurn to create a proper ISO. Another possibility, though highly unlikely in this case, is the use of CMC Magnetics media. They are the worst media out there and should always be avoided for DL DVD. The only reliable DVD+R DL is the Verbatim DataLife Plus. NOT the Life Series you find in brick and mortar stores which are CMC. DataLife Plus can generally only be found in online stores. It's possible, though as I said highly unlikely, the cheap media could be the cause of this issue. CMC discs being even unable to burn has been a thing before in the past.

There have been many reported issues with DL BD with many burner models over the years. I've only experience with burning BD-RE DL and they aren't ready for prime time. Another problem has been Verbatim's branded blue and white BD-R have turned into trash over the past 6 months, after a decade of solid reliability. So, the bottom line is, probably, you won't get a successful burn. You could try seeing if there are DataLife Plus BD-R DL out there, though they will be inkjet printable and a bit more expensive for something you won't need. DataLife Plus are the higher quality Verbatim discs, so maybe those BD-R DL will be better. I still need to test out the DataLife Plus BD-R to see if they can still be trusted like they were in 2023/early 2024. So, the bottom line is the only hope is Verbatim's inkjet printable surface DataLife Plus, which may or may not still be reliable.

Well, it's hard to say which is at fault. If I were to make just a cursory guess, the first 2 XL discs you burned were not nearly 100% full. The one that failed apparently was. So, a 2nd burn would rule out if it was the media or the drive that's bad. Or it might be a combination of both. The drive might not like that media. I would not necessarily blame a defective drive immediately. It's most likely a combination of the media not being liked by the drive. Attempting to burn that same 2nd disc to another XL BD would be more indicative. If that fails, too, it would be more likely the media, but not defective media. Just bad media. For instance, I have proven that the for a decade Verbatim branded blue and white BD-R which were rock solid with no failures are now just junk within the last 6 months. The most common areas for failure are at the layer changes and the inner and outer edges of a disc. For XL media, burning the entire disc involves both a layer change and the outer edge.

You should never trust discs that even recover from unreadable sectors. It is indicative of some future failure down the road. And definitely any Verify failures should cause you to not trust the final disc. Just a few weeks ago, I came across a BD-R I burned about 8 years ago that had a recovered read error on Verify. That disc was partially unreadable then. I should have burned the disc again, but it recovered from the read error and a manual Verify on the disc in a new, replacement drive showed no errors. Don't bother reinstalling ImgBurn. These kinds of errors are indicative of hardware or media errors. Reinstalling ImgBurn will rarely help in those cases. The ImgBurn Log tells you what file that sector mapped to: \VIDEOS\phonevideos\201003\201003A0\31032010123.mp4

Not from that alone, no. Post the entire Log of the operation.

I don't think it's possible to make a bootable Windows DVD that runs Windows except as a recovery/install environment. Now, there is something called Windows To Go, but that apparently requires some work and a special license to run it. As for making a bootable Windows disc, I've never gotten it to work with ImgBurn. You need some preconfigured settings plus a Windows bootloader to put on the disc.

Yeah, I never would have guessed waiting for nearly 90 minutes would be a workaround.

I never waited that long, but it may have helped me in the past to do that. Getting stuck at Track 2 seems to be a common place for ImgBurn to appear getting stuck Analyzing.

I suppose this belonged in Chat rather than ImgBurn Support as it has nothing to do with ImgBurn. I've never used this program before but I am guessing what it was saying with that notice to the user is you had some files added to be turned into DVD's that weren't converted. So, when you closed/opened the application again, it detected "uncompleted" work and asked if you wanted to clear out the cache of files. Basically, to start all over again with nothing on the slate to be done.